The state chronicle., 1887-05-05
GOLD TIMES AND THE NEW"
A VlRGINIAN'S VIEW OF CHAPEL
HILL AND DURHAM.
He Thinks the Chapel Hill Railroad
Runs by the Village and AdjOurns Sine
Die in q Mullen Patch.

He Thinks the Chapel Hill Railroad
Runs by the Village and Adjourns Sine
Die in q Mullen Patch.
Rev. DR.. J. J. Lafferty, editor of the
Richmond Christian Advocate, visited
Chapel Hill and Durham recently and lee
tured for the benefit of the new Methodist
church at Chapel Hill. Upon his return
he wrote an account-fresh, breezy and
bright-of his trip. We republish it be-
cause it is delightful reading; because it is
complimentary to our great State Univer-
sity and to our Tobaccopolis; and because
it is from the pen of the most original and
bright editor, after whom we read. in the
South. He has style peculiarly his own
and peculiarly charming. ng.-EDToR
For three or four years l had general
engagement to visit the University of North
Carolina. When the invitation came for
an address at an annual festivity, found
myself so hobbled that | declined with re
grets, always promising myself the pleas
| ure of seeing and saluting Chapel Hill.
Our people were without fitting edfice
for worship, and the church builder, Rev.
J. r. Griffith, was detailed" as they say
structure came to the cap stone. ''Don't
you want to put some bricks in it?' Of
course, | did. Investments in sacred edi-
fees in West Virginia, Tennessee. Mary
land, North Carolina and this old Com
monwealth comprehended my capital for
the centuries
"When victors' wreaths and monarchs' gems
Shall blend in common dust
The Kitchen a Factor of SUCCESS.
The day before the lecture found me far
off and busy in the Blue Ridge The Com
missary Department was concerning itself,
or rather herself, about coops, garden
seed, setting hens, house pig and hot
beds. The migration from Richmond to
the bluffs over against Bucks Elbow"
had ended. The supreme question with
the Confederacy was rations. Lee said
the lack of bacon baked him of victory,
not once or twice, but many times. The
buffalo engineered by his trail the route
for the rails across the Rockies. The pres
ence of the fat OK in camp leads to mar
tial glory. Abundance of beef brings bril-
liant battles. The South with surioins
would never have surrendered Nictuals
| is vital urgencv.
Lingering to PhilosOphize.
''But to return to my subject" How
the pen or tongue delights in digres sion !.
! Haven't you seen a herd of cattle driven
along a broad turnpike in the mountains,
when a bullock, here and tho re, would
leave the smooth track and climb with
scarcely footing among crags and bush
es, from impulse of original sin, or, as the
vexed stockmen would say, pure devil
try" | was starting to the University of
| North Carolina, but am still near by the
| University of Virginia, concerned for the
! shoats the cholera killed, the lonesome
| peafowl whose mate the puppy jet" "
slew, and for the Pekin duck "a mink trap
caught Alas The Limited Express
is rushing down the mountain, and, like
| time and tide, waits for no man-so, sor-
| rowing for ''biscuit, cask and buttcr,'
go.
Roughing it on Railroads.
| It's nine at night when | set to work in
| Richmond over heaps on heaps of letters
and manuscript BY one, the pile is fin
lshed and an editoril written. At two,
! through the silent streets, under the wink
ing electli; lights, with valse in hand,
stroll towards the Danville depot. Out of
dark alleys creeps the city cat on expedi-
tions of love, war or foraging. There are
snatches of sleep before the yell and bell
on the thither side of the Dan river rouse
you up to the clangor of-'.Twentv min
utes for breakfast 1t is forty miles to
Greensboro and then Change cars for
Raleigh | go another forty miles, and
then-''Change cars for Chapel Hill" Its
now nine miles to the University 1t takes
one hour to make it. The iron on the
road bed is the abandoned material of an
other line. They are afraid to run, or
even walk, the engine. 1t goes con all
fours.' 1t crawls awhile and rests. The
passengers dread a collision from some
| in rtal- -iycr no Il
horning the rear door off its hinges The
depot is an old freight car, divided off into
reception room and ii, ket office. The road
quits when in sight of the town of Chapel
| Hill, and ends nOWhere-or, rat her. it runs
by the village, and adiourns sine die in a
mullen patch. Why it SHE'D just as it got
to its collective point" no man knoweth.
l came to the home of Professor Man
gum by carriage. 1t is only needful to re-
peat what the Doctor recently wrote in
this Advocate; my likeness hangs in his
parlor-friends. When the North Caro-
linian is your friend, you have the niche
Battle, President of the University, and
his colleagues gave welcome,
Among the Literati.
This selection of a site for a great State
School was eminently happy. 1t was a
| forest, with enough of broken ridges and
gorges to give picturesqueness. The L nj
| verslty sits IN the centre of a park of forty
acres. The native trees of noble proper
ton invest the scene with a certain state
illness. Brooks break out under the cliffs
Avenues and grassy plats adorn. The
buildings are in keeping with the instltu
ton. The Memorial Hall is a structure ot
architecture in vogue for public houses
and very attractive The interior is fin
ished in the native pine. There are many
marble panels let IL the walls, rectins
the facts in lives of distinguished graduates
and guardians of the University. Ovel
the rostrum are long lists Of Confederate
dead, who were alumni of the school The
halls of the Society are handsomely equip
ped, and contain the portraits of many
natives of the State, living and dead
eminent in the varied walks of life
Put Baking Powders in.
There was an unusually large audienc.
-one-ffth of the little city. They desired
to assist our new church, and to be polit.
to the visiting Nirginian. 1t is a pleasur,
to lecture to a cultured company. The,
catch on to the scheme Of the address
directly. The notion of the old physicians
was, the bitterer the dose, the better thu
medicine. The pharmacists now concea
the repulsive potion in tempting capsule
, of candy. Figures and facts are not en-
ticing viands. The social, political, scien
. tific and moral statistics that mark th